Whenever people talk about Xu Zhimo, they are likely to mention three women. They are Zhang Youyi, Lin Huiyin and Lu Xiaoman. These were the three most important women in Zhimo's life. Their love stories with Xu Zhimo have touched many people.

Love played an extremely important role in Zhimo's life. Without love, Zhimo wouldn't have become a poet, let along being such a famous poet. Zhimo once said that in his first twenty years, he knew nothing about poems. He started to write poems after he met Lin Huiyin. He was impressed by Huiyin's talent that he fell in love with her the first time they met each other. Zhimo loved her so much that he decided to write poems to express his feeling towards her. When Huiyin later decided to marry Liang Sicheng, the son of Zhimo's most admired teacher Liang Qichao, Zhimo was hurt and became less productive.

Zhimo's poems were largely affected by his love. He wrote poems that expressed his euphoria when he was in love and sad poems that expressed his hatred to the world when he was rejected. Without poems, Zhimo wouldn't have written so many touching poems.

If you wish to know more about Zhimo's love stories with these three women, please click on the link below:

Zhang Youyi & Xu Zhimo

Lin Huiyin & Xu Zhimo

Lu Xiaoman & Xu Zhimo